A web showcase for arts and culture

A new EPiServer website for the Government of Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA).

The Government of Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) enriches and supports Western Australians in the culture and arts sectors, helping to support these sectors to provide unique and transforming experiences. To help in doing this, DCA’s website needed to undergo its own transformational experience.

A user friendly, good looking and manageable solution, attractive to users and staff alike, was the order of the day, and DCA chose EPiServer as the web platform to make this happen.

“What we needed could have been achieved on many platforms, but EPiServer provided a user friendly interface for the end user and an intuitive and simple CMS tool for staff,” says Richard Denboer, DCA’s Web Systems Manager.

Staff had found the old web solution difficult to update and to learn the ropes on, and “the result was a clunky, messy website,” Richard explains. Ease of use in the new system was paramount. The new content management system needed to empower a wide range of content creators, the support needed to be professional and responsive, and the product releases needed to be kept on track.

Having a local website provider was also important to DCA. Richard says: “With a solution selected that ticked all the boxes, we needed to find a local provider that would provide a good quality service, good communication and ongoing support.” Having Intergen on the ground in Perth proved useful. “Intergen was excellent to deal with and provided great results. The communication was excellent and the solution was delivered on time,” Richard says.

DCA now has a website its staff are proud of and confident in. As a CMS tool, EPiServer is more intuitive, and as a destination it offers a far greater and more dynamic user experience. DCA can now direct its users to a friendly, up-to-date website that reflects its true purpose and provides a fitting showcase for local arts and culture.

In summarising the greatest gains EPiServer has brought DCA, Richard says: “It’s now really simple for us to change content on our website, and our people are very well trained and confident. And that’s the reason why we purchased EPiServer creates a fitting showcase for Western Australian arts and culture.